Davey D is a Hip Hop historian, journalist, deejay, media and community activist. Originally from the Bronx, Davey D's been down with Hip Hop since since 1977 where he started out as an emcee for two crews TDK [Total Def Krew] out of Co-op City and the Avengers out of the Marble Hill Section of the Bronx. he moved from New York to Cali to attend college. He's a graduate of UC Berekely

Davey Dis the current host of Hard Knock Radio a syndicated daily afternoon show that focuses on Hip Hop culture and politics. The show originates on KPFA 94.1 FM in the San Francisco Bay Area and is heard in Seattle, Atlanta, Portland and Fresno. HKR has been on the air since 1999 and was recently cited as best on air show by the East-Bay Express with Davey D being voted Best on air personality.

Davey D is the co-author of 2 books 'How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office' and 'BAF-Be A Father to Your Child' He also contributed to the annual Project Censored 2004 Edition

Currently he's the webmaster for what is considered one of the oldest and largest Hip Hop sites on the web Davey D's Hip Hop Corner- which can be found at www.daveyd.com. The writings on his website are frequently referenced and quoted by journalists, scholars and professors and fans from all around the world.

He's been featured in numerous documentaries, magazines, newspapers, videos and TV news shows like; CNN, Fox News, ABC's Nightline, America's Black Forum, The Tavis Smiley Show, Democracy Now, C-Span, BET Television, American Gangster VH1 Television,Link TV, Laura Flanders Grit TV, Australia's Lateline, Distortion of Static, Built From Scratch, Hard Knock TV Rock TV Vlad TV, Internet Cafe, Computer Chronicles, Soul Beat TV, KRON TV, KTVU TV, KTOP , Bay TV, KPIX TV, KBHK TV, Air America Radio Front Page Radio, KGO Radio, KCBS Radio and BBC Radio.

Davey D's appeared in documentaries like; Rap City Rhapsody, Dead Prez Its Bigger than Hip Hop Starz TV Documentary, 2Pac's Thug Angel, Beef I, Beef II, Letter to the President, Soundz of Spirit, Rock the Bells, Turn Off Channel Zero, BET-Master P Special Radio Politricks, Beats by the Bay, Chuck D's Hall of Fame, E-40's Charlie Hustle the Blueprint of a Self-Made Millionaire, American Gangster-(Felix Mitchel), American Gangster-(Romper Room Gang) , Straight From The Streets, Reel Changes Jahi's Redefinition to name a few.

As mentioned earlier, Davey D moved from New York to California to go to school at UC Berkeley where he started deejaying throughout the Bay Area. His mobile DJ company the NY-LA Connection was a mainstay on the UC Berkeley campus and eventually that along with his community activism eventually lead him working at college and community radio stations KALX where he did several shows and served as the station's Third World Department head including its ground-breaking Sunday Morning show. This show helped net the station its first and only prestigious Gavin Award for best Hip Hop College station in the country.

Davey D's work at KALX spawned off several projects including his popular widely distributed newsletter 'The Davey D Beat Report'. It was one of the first of its kind west coast publications chronicling the Bay Area's then emerging Hip Hop scene. It also led to him penning one of the first Hip Hop columns in the country for major publication BAM Magazine where he launched his Beats and Breaks Column. That column eventually landed and ran in the SF Bay Guardian.

The other project that spawned from KALX was the Davey D along with radio counterparts KK Baby, Marcus Clemmons and DJ G from KPOO 89.5 FM, DJ Kevvy Kev from KZSU 90.1FM co-founding the Bay Area Hip Hop Coalition (BAHHC) which was one of the first Hip Hop radio DJ unions in the country. It brought all on air Hip Hop deejays together who then adapted Davey D's Beat Report newsletter and turned it into The Bay Area Beat Report which became a mouth piece to the industry and beyond by the collective.

From there Davey D went onto Free Speech Speech Radio KPFA 94.1 FM where he started out doing an afternoon show called 'Bring The Noise' which focused on Hip Hop and House music. He later moved to Friday nights where he launched a show called the Friday Night Vibe which grew and went on to be re-broadcasted in Auckland, New Zealand on commercial station The Beat 96 FM.

The Friday Night Vibe became the launching pad for a popular online newsletter called the FNV Newsletter which at its height had an email subscriber base of over 100 thousand people. He later launched an accompanying online publication called the HHPN [Hip Hop Political Newsletter]. As mentioned earlier he currently hosts the syndicated daily afternoon show Hard Knock Radio

Davey D left KMEL in 2001 and went on to start programming online radio stations for AOL Radio. He was the Urban Music director where programmed and oversaw the day to day programming duties for 15 radio stations. During his stint at AOL Radio Davey D teamed up with legendary Hip Hop icon Chuck D of Public Enemy and launched a Top 20 Countdown Show. Davey D served as the music programmer for that show.

From there he went on to program 8 of the urban music radio stations featured on Sprint Radio. Included in that offering were his own online ventures Breakdown FM, Da Underground and Soul Purpose Radio.

In 2000 Davey D was nominated by the Bay Area's City Flight magazine as one of the Bay Area's Most Influential African Americans. In 2001, Davey D was voted by the East Bay Express Newspaper as the Best On Air Personality in the Bay Area. The daily radio show he co-hosts, Hard Knock Radio was voted Best Radio Show in the Bay Area

Most recently he was featured on the cover story of Urbanview Newspaper here in Oakland. He was also profiled in the January 2003 edition of The Source Magazine as being one of the Top 10 most Influential people in the country when it comes to dealing with Hip Hop and politics.

Davey D was also the guest curator for the Rock N-Roll Hall of Fame Hip Hop Nation Exhibit when it came to San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center in June of 2001. He helped put together a special addition to that exhibit that focused on bay Area and West Coast Hip Hop. Yerba Buena drew its highest number of visitors ever for that exhibit

Davey D recently served as creative director and consultant for ‘Texas is In Play-Turn Texas Blue’ campaign where he developed a Hip Hop and political get out and vote documentary for the historic 2008 election

Davey D is a proud member of The PROs Record Pool where he served as director for several years in the late 80s -early 90s. He is also a co-founder of the Bay Area Hip Hop Coalition [BAHHC] Davey D is also a member of the Bay Area Black Journalist Association [BABJA]

Davey D has been a featured speaker at high schools, universities and community centers throughout the country. He speaks on topics ranging from Hip Hop to Politics to bridging the Digital Divide. Here's a short list of places he's lectured..